The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-24

children, names unknown, Mrs.
Douglas Walters baby and tho in-
iants each of Mcssrs j. =. DeDning
aud Joo Duncan were kllod. Also
the 6-year old child OF MIR viii Ma.
chalc.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
The following IL u list OF those
known. Mt this hour. to have been se-
riously injured:
jim Waldridgc, Ed Horn, George
White, j. C. kinsev and VIM. Camp.
bell. on the farm of Richard llsrkncss
!le, with his wife and four children
and Miss Minneck, Of Oak wood, Ills,
who was visiting the family, were Ia
the house The building was taken
up bodily and carried 2C0 yards aud
DROPPED IN AN ORCHARD.
An the occupants were hurt very
seriously. and Mrs. Hardness was Kill.
ed. II Is reported that several per-
sons were killed IN Blue Mount. fv.
cry farm house in the path of the
storm was demolished, and every
house in Prescott WAS ruined, Four
miles from Prescott Nj Flynn'-
line residence was mashed Hat.
and Mrs. FLYNN and three small chill
dren were mOrtally injured. Two
visitors were dangcrou-ly hurt. Ja-
cob Brock and wife, aud one son;Wm
Mckold and wife and child are fatally
injured. \ mile from this scene W.
:. BoOart, Mrs. VI. Odcll Mr. Hogan
his wife and two children had taken
refuge from the storm in the cellar,
when
EIGHT COWS FELL oN THEN
through the floor, and all were severe.
ly injured. VIM. Browningburg's
family found refuge in n storm cave
while their - 900 residence was scat-
tered over the fields. Ten miles
Crane was killed and her family in.
jured by the crushing in of her house
Ina distance oftwenty-two miles only
one house is known to have stood the
storm. H. &. Tripp. OF Kansas City,
was standing in the doorway of
Manlove Bros, grocery store, in
Prescott, when the building was de
stroycd. He was killed. The few
buildings left standing III Prescott are
- W ~ lfAf w ihlfFhs
G.. X ndcrwoods residence. the
baptist ard Methodist churches. W.
H. Billiugsly's harness store, Parkcr's
meat market and the Prescott house
arc among the buildings destroyed.
Nearly every house at tho Miami
junction five miles north Of Prescott
were blown down and several person-
were inj urcd. Seventeen persons art
now known to have been killed in
Linn county aud about litty seriously
wounded in BOuIb bon. ~. j. Fields
farm wa. swept clear of buildings and
i've stock, Near by the Mills fam
ily
WAS NEARLY EXTERN MATED.
Two childrcD. the father aud moth
cr were killed aud niece aud one
child were found barely alive but will
recover, The stone residence Of San
Cole WAS blown OF the ground. In
Anderson county the cyclone badly
damaged the town OF Colony, At
Blue Mound, town OF 900 inhnbi.
tanir twenty houses were wrecked
ana two persons were killed. Jos
Duncan's house was hurled away in
the
MIDST or A WEDDING,
but the party found refuge in another
house and were not injured. A spc.
cial from Greenvillc, Miss says that
section was visited by terrible
thunder storm followed by heavy
hail. which killed livestock and injur-
ed many negroes. In Bolivar county,
Miss, tho town OF Huntington was
nearly demolished. a new hotel.
Robertson's store and dwelling, Ben.
sons residence and several negro
cabins were wrecked aud the debris
blown several hundred yards.
Fence Cutters at work.
SDecial Dispatch to The Examiner,